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Where and when was a bicycle race organized to escape to another country?

In 1915, a group of athletes from the Belgian Liege asked the commandant of the German occupation troops for permission to hold a bicycle race in order to raise funds to help the victims of the war. He agreed on the condition that each participant put a German flag on the bike.

The route of the race was assigned from Liège to the village of Molingen near the Belgian-Dutch border. At the finish line, the cyclists did not stop and went straight to the Netherlands, which was a neutral state during the First World War, and the German soldiers guarding the track did not have time to prevent the fugitives.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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In the entire history of mankind, about 100 thousand tons of gold have been mined on planet Earth, and half of it has been extracted from the mines of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. Sometimes more than a thousand tons of precious metal were mined here in a year. And this unique deposit was discovered quite by accident.

In 1886, the farmer Walker, who lived near the city of Johannesburg, noticed a stone with brass-colored sparkles. I decided, just in case, to crush the rock and wash the sand in a basin of water. As is often the case with new gold prospectors, Walker was wrong: the brassy grains weren't gold. It was the mineral pyrite, an iron sulfide of little value. But besides pyrite, at the bottom of the basin with washed crushed rock, there was a thin bright yellow strip of real golden sand!

Thus was discovered the gold of the Witwatersrand, the world's greatest accumulation of precious metal. Subsequently, it turned out that uranium is also concentrated here, along with gold. Thus, the value of the deposit has increased even more.

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